muffins

On Saturday we decided to bake muffins while we waited for the rain to stop.

1. get the baking tray ready

2. mix, mix

3. put the mixture into the tray and top with banana

4. lick the spoon!

schoolboy

Dylan finally seems to have settled down in the toddler group at school - at least he is no longer as shy as he was, we were told he is now quite naughty. Most importantly, he loves going, especially now the weather seems to have improved and he can play outdoors half the day. When he has dinner in the evening we discuss his day and he tells us what he did, ate and who he played with. He also seems to learn a new song every week so we generally get treated to that too. The photos aren't from school, I just thought the short hair and the tie made him look like a naughty schoolboy.

Unfortunatey this week brought more rain so we haven't been out much today...here he is drawing a car. (?)

DIY

Dylan loves 'helping' with everything, carrying the groceries up the stairs and unpacking them, loading and unloading the dishwasher, folding the washing, cleaning up, etc. His latest favourite is helping papa timmeren en 'schroevendraaieren' - not sure that's actually a word but it's what they call it.

Grumpa!

Well, we seemed to have progressed from Butta to Grumpa, just in time for Grandpa's birthday! Here's Dylan celebrating with a red balloon. He has been practicing singing happy birthday all morning, waiting to skype.

And here he is making a surprise for Grumpa...

Travel

We're back from a lovely weekend in London, staying with Martin, Faye and Nicholas. We travelled by trains, planes and automobiles (great title for a movie!), we went by bus and metro but the thing Dylan maybe loved most was Nicholas' little bike. He didn't really cycle, but he did race around on it.... here he is going down some stairs in Bishop's park in Fulham.

PS: woohoo! first ever video on Dylan's blog

show me the money!